Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 187
August 19, 2019
thelegalfangirl:Oooh! I see! That’s another son of Apollo,...
Oooh! I see! That’s another son of Apollo, right?
Lol Nope! That’s, like, the one genre I don’t write. Hippolytos is the name of the soldier that was in Charon’s boat, then wasn’t, and there’s a myth I loosely borrowed from about him being resurrected by Asklepios, so the plot is definitely thickening at this point in The Good Counselor.
Cooooorrect.
That might have some importance in TGC.
Ahem.
thelegalfangirl:therkalexander:@thelegalfangirl Lol Nope! That’s, like, the one genre I don’t write....
Lol Nope! That’s, like, the one genre I don’t write. Hippolytos is the name of the soldier that was in Charon’s boat, then wasn’t, and there’s a myth I loosely borrowed from about him being resurrected by Asklepios, so the plot is definitely thickening at this point in The Good Counselor.
Oooh! I see! That’s another son of Apollo, right?
Cooooorrect.
That might have some importance in TGC.
Ahem.
a-gnosis:
For you I’m a chrysantemum Supernova, urgent star...
For you I’m a chrysantemum
Supernova, urgent star
For you I’ll be a dandelion
A thousand flowerettes in the sky
Or just a drop in the ocean
If you know my name
Don’t speak it out
It holds a power - as before
A lily of the valley
A flower of saron
For you I even be a sunflower
Do you hear my enlightening laughter?
Another reason to cut off an ear
You know my name, do you not?
Don’t say it
For it is sacred, immovable - frozen
I’ll even be a waterlily,
A marygold, a rose
Or a little thistle
A blue dahlia, a black tulip
That’s where opinions differ
The scholars disagree
My name, should you know it
Remains unspeakable
And is spoken - malediction
Blume - Einstürzende Neubauten
@thelegalfangirl Lol Nope! That’s, like, the one genre I don’t write. Hippolytos is the name of the...
Lol Nope! That’s, like, the one genre I don’t write. Hippolytos is the name of the soldier that was in Charon’s boat, then wasn’t, and there’s a myth I loosely borrowed from about him being resurrected by Asklepios, so the plot is definitely thickening at this point in The Good Counselor.
August 18, 2019
giantrodent:
therkalexander:
I CAN’T SAY SHIT ABOUT SHIT RIGHT...
I CAN’T SAY SHIT ABOUT SHIT RIGHT NOW EXCEPT THAT IT MIGHT BE TIME FOR YOU TO GET FUCKING EXCITED
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
How big is Charon's boat? Like, how many shades can fit in one go?
I mentally modeled Charon’s boat after a much more modern boat, the Venetian gondola. Mostly I did this because there aren’t many surviving fishing boats or the like from three thousand-odd years ago. But I imagined the boat with a much lower front prow, and slightly wider than the modern gondola.
Shades in Chthonia have very little mass or form, as they are essentially ghosts, so literally hundreds could fit on a boat, if needed. The most material thing about them is their coins.
And because you least expect it, here’s a snippet from an upcoming chapter of The Good Counselor that I haven’t shared yet where shades are getting on the boat…
beautifulbizarremagazine:
“Stay Here With Me,” from...
“Stay Here With Me,” from @abigail_larson. I’ve got a major art crush on Abigail.
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#beautifulbizarremagazine #contemporaryart #redhair #love #death
Hi, I've recently just finished reading Receiver of Many, and.. wow. Just, wow. Your world-building is just awesome, I could vividly imagine every setting and scene in the novel! Do you have any other headcanons about domestic hadesxpersephone stuff?
Thank you! :D
a couple Domestic Headcannon Things:
• Persephone steals the bedsheet when they’re sleeping. All the time. But weirdly the blankets seem to stay on Hades.
• Yes, they still practice sword play. Yes, it often leads to sex.
• Ever wonder what the occasional cold snap in April is all about? Persephone often sneaks back home for a night or two after creating spring.
There is something you do in yours books that rights one thing that’s always irritated me about the myth of Hades and Persephone: people always focus on Hades in the story and tend to debate whether or not he’s a villain while Persephone is almost always v
Yay!
To be honest, smashing the trope of a reductive, single-dimension, there-as-plot-device Persephone was a major goal of mine when I set about writing Receiver of Many.
I wasn’t interested in making a story “happen” to her. She needed to be the driving force.
Thank you!
